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LAWS 

RELATING TO 



Public Schools and School 
Interests 



Enacted by the Legislatures of 1920 (Extraordinary 
Session) and 1921 



PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY 

OF 

MRS. JOSEPHINE CORLISS PRESTON 

Superintendent of Public Instruction 
OLYMPIA 



1920-1921 



OLYMPIA 
FRANK M. LAMBORN o^^^ PUBLIC PRINTER 

1921 



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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

RECEIVED 

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DOCUMENTS nV,o!.> 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

Page 

Administrative Code, ex-ofRcio duties Superintendent under. 6 

Attendance, high school pupils 7 

Bellingham Normal School, right of way across lands of 12 

Tax, for revenue for 20 

Board of Higher Curricula 13 

Bonds, School District, levy for payment for. . 21 

Redemption fund 22 

Cheney Normal School, tax, for revenue for 20 

City, Incorporated, comprised in one district. 14 

Directors, of first class school districts, powers and duties 27 

In cities of first class, may furnish free milk to pupils 31 

Elections, in class "A" and first class counties 10 

Term of office in 11 

Election supplies, providing of 11 

In other than class "A" and first class districts, first class 

school districts within port districts 25 

Term of office in 26 

Election supplies, providing of 26 

Ellensburg Normal School, tax for revenue for 20 

Exemptions, motor vehicles 13 

From tuition fees 19-24 

Fees, Normal Schools 16 

State College of Washington 24 

University of Washington 17 

Fund, Current School 5 

High School Pupils, tuition 7 

High School District, Union, may f orn; 14 

Higher Curricula, Joint Board of 13 

Indebtedness, computation, by a taxing district for bonding 15 

Institutions, for higher education, tax for support 20 

Milk, free, may furnish in cities of the first class 31 

Motor Vehicles, exemption 13 

Nautical School, abolished 8 

Normal Schools, extension charges 16 



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Page 

Redemption Fund, school district bonds 22 

Revenue, tax for school 5 

State College of Washington, tax for revenue for 20 

Tuition fees 24 

Superintendent, Public Instruction, ex-ofRcio duties, administra- 
tive code 6 

Taxes, for current school fund, levied, considered as asset in com- 
puting indebtedness, when 15 

For higher education fund 20 

Tuition, high school pupils J- 7 

Normal schools, extension work 16 

State College 24 

University of Washington 17 

Union High School District, second or third class districts may form 14 
University of Washington, requirements for admission, educational 23 

Tax, for revenue for 20 

Tuition fees 17 

Yictory and Admission Day 9 



SESSION LAWS OF 1920 

(Extraordinary Session) 



CHAPTER 2. 

An Act relating to school revenues, tlie annual tax levy and limit 
thereof, and amending section 4600 of Remington & Ballinger's An- 
notated Codes and Statutes of Washington. 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Section 1. That section 4600 of Rem. & Bal. Code be 
amended to read as follows : 

Section 4600. The interest accruing on said perma- 
nent school fund, together with all rentals and other rev- 
enues derived therefrom, and from lands and other prop- 
erty devoted to the common school fund, shall be exclu- 
sively applied to the current use of the common schools. 

In addition thereto it shall be the duty of the state 
board of equalization, annually, at the time of levying 
taxes for state purposes, to levy a tax sufficient to pro- 
duce a sum which, when added to the amount of money 
derived from interest and other income from the state 
permanent school fund during the preceding school year, 
shall equal twenty dollars for each child of school age 
residing in the state as shown by the last reports of the 
several county superintendents to the superintendent of 
public instruction. 

The funds provided by this section shall be known as 
the current school fund. 

Passed the Senate March 22, 1920. 
Passed the House March 23, 1920. 
Approved by the Governor March 25, 1920. 



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CHAPTER 7 (Part). 

[H. B. 11.] 

An Act relating to, and to promote efficiency, order and economy in, 
the administration of the government of the state, prescribing the 
powers and duties of certain officers and departments, defining 
offenses and fixing penalties, abolishing certain oflBlces, and repealing 
conflicting acts and parts of acts. 

Be it enacted hy the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited 
as the administrative code. 

Sec. 9. The secretary of state, the superintendent of 
public instruction, and the state insurance commissioner, 
ex officio, shall constitute the state archives committee, 
which shall have the power, and it shall be its duty, to ex- 
ercise all the powers and perform all the duties now 
vested in, and required to be performed by, the public 
archives commission. 

Sec. 11. The secretary of state, the superintendent 
of public instruction, and the state insurance commis- 
sioner, ex officio, shall constitute the state voting machine 
committee, which shall have the power, and it shall be its 
duty, to exercise all the powers and perform all the duties 
now vested in, and required to be performed by, the 
state board of voting machine examiners. 

Sec. 13. The superintendent of public instruction, 
the commissioner of public lands, and the state treasurer, 
ex officio, shall constitute the state library committee, 
which shall have the power, and it shall be its duty, to 
exercise all the powers and perform all the duties relat- 
ing to the state library, except the powers and duties 
relating to the state law library, now vested in, and re- 
quired to be performed by, the state library commis- 



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sion, and shall exercise all the powers and perform ail 
the duties now vested in, and required to be performed 
by, the state library advisory board. 



CHAPTER 44. 

[H. B. 120.] 



An Act relating to the attendance of high school pupils in adjoining 
districts and providing for the payment of tuition therefor, and 
amending section 4982 Pierce's Code. 

Be it enacted hy the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Section 1. That section 4982 Pierce's Code (4484 of 
Rem. & Bal. Code) be amended to read as follows: 

Section 4982. Any board of directors shall have 
power to make arrangements with adults wishing to 
attend school, or with the directors of another district, 
for the attendance of such children, in the school of either 
district as may be best accommodated therein : Provided, 
That in case such arrangements are not made or chil- 
dren from school districts not adjoining desire to attend 
school in their district they may charge reasonable tui- 
tion for such attendance: Provided further, That all 
such money collected by any school district officer for the 
use of the district shall, within thirty days after the date 
of its collection, be turned over to the county treasurer 
and placed to the credit of the district: Provided fur- 
ther, That the board of directors of any school district in 
the state in which a high school is maintained, and which 
lies adjacent to the boundary of a school district in an- 
other state in which no high school is maintained, may 
make arrangements with the officers of the district of the 
other state for the attendance of any high school pupils 
residing in such outside district upon the payment of tui- 
tion therefor : Provided, That the provisions of this sec- 
tion shall not apply unless the laws of the other state per- 



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mit its districts to extend similar privileges to pupils resi- 
dent in the State of Washington. In the event that any 
pupils residing in a Washington School District, which 
maintains no high school and which is adjacent to the 
school district of another state, shall desire to attend 
high school in such district in the other state, the board of 
directors of the Washington district shall have the power 
to arrange for, and pay tuition for their attendance in 
the district of the other state and to pay such expense 
from the funds of the district. Provided further, The 
reimbursement of a high school district for cost of edu- 
cating high school pupils for a non high school district, 
as provided for in this act, shall not be deemed a tuition 
charge as affecting the apportionment of current state 
school funds provided for in Section 5072 Pierce's Code, 
4568 of Remington & Ballinger's Annotated Codes and 
Statutes. 

Passed the House February 15, 1921. 

Passed the Senate February 23, 1921. 

Approved by the Governor March 4, 1921. 



CHAPTER 46. 

[S. B. 93.] 



An Act to repeal chapter 20, Laws of 1917, entitled "An Act providing 
for a state nautical school and for the government and mainte- 
nance thereof." 

Be it enacted hy the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Section 1. That chapter 20, Laws of 1917, entitled 
^^An act providing for a state nautical school, and for the 
maintenance thereof," be and the same is hereby re- 
pealed. 

Passed the Senate February 17, 1921. 

Passed the House March 2, 1921. 

Approved by the Governor March 8, 1921. 



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CHAPTER 56. 

An Act establishing a day for the observance by the public schools as 
"Victory and Admission Day" and prescribing for the teachers of 
the public schools and county superintendents of schools and the 
state superintendent of public instruction certain duties in relation 
thereto. 

Be it enacted hy the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Section 1. The 11th day of November each year, or 
the Friday preceding when the 11th of November falls 
upon a non-school day, shall be suitably observed in all 
the compion and high schools of the state and shall be 
known as *^ Victory and Admission Day/' 

Sec. 2. For the proper observance of this day, it 
shall be the duty of each teacher in the public schools of 
this state, or principal in charge of the school building, 
to prepare and, in co-operation with the pupils in his 
charge, present a program of exercises of at least sixty 
minutes in length, setting forth the part taken by the 
United States and the State of Washington in the world 
war for the years 1917 and 1918, and the principles for 
which the allied nations fought, and the heroic deeds of 
American soldiers and sailors, the leading events in the 
history of our state and of Washington Territory, the 
character and struggles of the pioneer settlers and other 
topics tending to instill a loyalty and devotion to the in- 
stitutions and laws of our state. 

Sec. 3. It is hereby made the duty of the state super- 
intendent of public instruction and of the county superin- 
tendent of schools, by advice and suggestions, to aid in 
the suitable observance of ** Victory and Admission 
Day.'' 

Passed the Senate February 14, 1921. 

Passed the House March 2, 1921. 

Approved by the Governor March 8, 1921. 



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CHAPTEE 61. 

An Act fixing the time of holding elections, providing for the appoint- 
ment of election officers and prescribing their duties, and fixing 
the time of the commencement of terms of municipal and district 
officers. 

Be it enacted hy the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Section 1. All county elections in Class A counties 
and counties of the first class, whether general or special, 
and whether for the election of county officers or for the 
submission to the voters of any county of any question 
for their adoption and approval or rejection, shall be 
held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of No- 
vember in the year in which they may be called : Provided, 
That this section shall not be construed as fixing the time 
for holding the elections for the recall of county officers 
or primary elections. 

Sec. 2. That all city, town, township, school district, 
port district, park district, irrigation district, dike dis- 
trict, drainage district, drainage improvement district, 
diking improvement district, river improvement district, 
commercial waterway district, and all other municipal 
and district elections whether general or special, and 
whether for the election of municipal or district officers 
or for the submission to the voters of any city, town, 
township or district of any question for their adoption 
or approval or rejection, shall be held in Class A coun- 
ties and counties of the first class on the first Tuesday 
after the first Monday in Ma^^ in the year in which the}' 
may be called: Provided, That this section shall not be 
construed as fixing the time of holding elections for the 
recall of city, town or district officers : And provided fur- 
ther, That this section shall not be construed as repealing 
the provisions of a city of the first class providing for the 
election of persons receiving a majority of all votes cast 
for any office at a primary or first election, but such prim- 



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ary or first election shall be held two weeks prior to the 
general election provided for in this section. 

Sec. 3. Nothing in this act contained shall be con- 
strued as preventing the calling of a special election by 
the governor to fill a vacancy existing in any state office 
or the office of United States senator, representative in 
Congress, for the senator or member of the House of 
Representatives of the State of Washington, on any other 
dates than those above specified. 

Sec. 4. The term of every city, town and district 
officer elected under the provisions of this act shall begin 
on the first Monday in June following his election : Pro- 
vided, however, That any person elected to office at the 
first election held under this act shall not take office until 
the expiration of the term of office of his predecessor: 
And provided further. That any person whose term of 
office shall expire prior to the holding of the first election 
under this act, shall continue to hold office until his suc- 
cessor is elected and qualified. 

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the chairman of the 
board of county commissioners, the county auditor and 
the prosecuting attorney in Class A counties and coun- 
ties of the first class in all city, town and district elec- 
tions held under the provisions of this act to provide 
places for holding elections, to appoint the election offi- 
cers, to provide for their compensation, to provide ballot 
boxes and ballots or voting machines, poll books and tally 
sheets, and deliver them to the election officers at the 
polling places, to publish and post notices of calling such 
elections in the manner provided by law, and to appor- 
tion to each city, town or district its share of the ex- 
pense of such election. 

Sec. 6. The election officers hereinabove provided 
for shall conduct such elections and shall receive and de- 
posit ballots cast thereat in the proper and respective 
ballot boxes and shall count said ballots and make return 



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thereof to the proper officers of the respective cities, 
towns, and districts in the manner provided by law; 
Provided, however, There shall be but one set of election 
officials in each precinct. 

Sec. 7. At every election held under the provisions 
of this act, the polls shall be kept open from eight o 'clock 
a. m. to eight o'clock p. m. and all qualified electors who 
shall be inside of the polling place at eight o 'clock p. m. 
shall be allowed to cast their ballots at such election. 

Passed the Senate February 14, 1921. 

Passed the House March 2, 1921. 

Approved by the Grovernor March 10, 1921. 



CHAPTEE 66. 

[H. B. 134.] 



An Act authorizing the hoard of trustees of the state normal school at 
Bellingham to grant rights of way for highway across such school 
lands. 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 
Section 1. That the board of trustees of the state 
normal school at Bellingham are hereby authorized to 
grant to the park board of the city of Bellingham with- 
out charge a right of way for a highway over and across 
any of the lands belonging to such school: Provided, 
That neither the State of Washington, the said state nor- 
mal school, nor any of the lands thereof shall ever be 
assessed or required to pay any part of the cost of con- 
struction, improvement, or maintenance of any such high- 
way. 

Passed the House March 3, 1921. 
Passed the Senate March 9, 1921. 
Approved by the Governor March 10, 1921. 



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CHAPTER 85. 

[H. B. 310.] 

An Act relating to institutions of higher learning and amending sec- 
tion 4745 of Pierce's Code. 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Sectioit 1. That Sec. 4745 of Pierce's Code be 
amended to read as follows : 

Section 4745. There is hereby established a joint 
board of higher curricula composed of seven members, 
namely, the president of the University of Washington, 
the president of the State College of Washington, the 
president of one of the state normal schools to be selected 
by the presidents of the state normal schools and four 
citizens of the State of Washington who are in no way 
connected with the institutions of higher learning, to be 
appointed by the governor. The selected members of the 
joint board shall hold office for two years and shall serve 
until their successors are selected. 

Passed the House March 3, 1921. 

Passed the Senate March 7, 1921. 

Approved by the Governor March 14, 1921. 



CHAPTER 96. (Pakt) 

* * * * Sec. 17. Motor vehicles and trailers 
owned by the State of Washington, or by the counties^ 
county game commissions, cities and school districts 
therein, and used exclusively by them, and all motor vehi-. 
cles owned by the United States Government, and used 
exclusively in its service, shall be exempt from the pay- 
ment of the license fees herein provided : Provided, how- 
ever, Such vehicle shall be registered as prescribed in this 
act and shall display upon the machine the number plates 



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assigned by the secretary of state, and except in case of 
the Federal government, shall pay for such number plates 
a fee of one dollar ($1.00). 



CHAPTER 101. 



An Act relating to public schools and amending section 4424 of Rem- 
ington & Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington. 

Be it enacted hy the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Section 1. That section 4424 of Rem. & Bal. Code be 
amended to read as follows: 

Section 4424. Every incorporated city in the state 
shall be comprised in one school district, and shall be 
under the control of one board of directors: Provided y 
That any two or more contiguous or adjacent districts of 
the second and third class may form a union high school 
district in the manner and with all the powers provided 
by law for union high school districts: Provided, That 
nothing in this section shall be so construed as to pre- 
vent the extension of such city district a reasonable dis- 
tance beyond the limits of such city: And provided fur- 
ther, That nothing in this section shall be so construed 
as to change or disturb the boundaries of any school dis- 
trict organized prior to the incorporation of any city, 
except in cases of incorporation of cities lying partly in 
two or more school districts organized prior to the in- 
corporation of any city, or the extension of the bound- 
aries of cities beyond the limits of the school districts in 
which they are situated, or in cases where two or more 
cities unite, as provided by law: And provided further. 
That the fact of the issuance of bonds by school districts, 
heretofore or hereafter, shall not prevent the formation 
of new school districts, whether or not such bonds have 
been redeemed, cancelled or paid in whole or in part and 



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shall not prevent the transfer or uniting with another 
school district of a portion or the whole of a district 
where bonds have been or may hereafter be issued. 

Passed the House March 2, 1921. 

'Passed the Senate March 8, 1921. 

Approved by the Governor March 16, 1921. 



CHAPTER 123. 

[H. B. 73.] 



An Act relating to the computation of the indebtedness of taxing dis- 
tricts and amending section 5401 Pierce's Code, and declaring that 
this act shall take effect immediately. 

Be it enacted hy the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Sectioit 1. That section 5401 Piercers Code be 
amended to read as follows : 

Section 5401. Whentirer it shall be necessary to 
compute the indebtedness of a taxing district for bonding 
or any other indebtedness purposes, taxes levied for the 
current year and cash on hand received for the purpose 
of carrying on the business of such taxing district for 
such current year shall be considered as an asset only 
as against indebtedness incurred during such current 
year which is payable from such taxes or cash on hand : 
Provided, hoivever, That all taxes levied for the payment 
of bonds, warrants or other public debts of such taxing 
district, shall be deemed a competent and sufficient asset 
of the taxing district to be considered in calculating the 
constitutional debt limit or the debt limit prescribed 
by this act for any taxing district: Provided, That the 
provisions of this section shall not apply in computing 
the debt limit of a taxing district in connection with bonds 
authorized pursuant to a vote of the electors at an elec- 
tion called prior to March 1, 1917. 



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Sec. 2. This act is necessary for the immediate pres- 
ervation of the public peace, health and safety, support of 
the state government and its existing public institutions, 
and shall take effect immediately. 

Passed the House January 31, 1921. 

Passed the Senate March 8, 1921. 

Approved by the Governor March 19, 1921. 



CHAPTER 136. 

[S. B. 126.] 



An Act relating to tuition fees for state normal school extension work, 
and amending section 4373 of Remington & Ballinger's Annotated 
Codes and Statutes of Washington. 

Be it enacted hy the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Section 1. That section 4373 of Rem. & Bal. Code 
be amended to read as follows :'' 

Section 4373. No charge shall be made against any 
student for tuition in any of the normal schools contem- 
plated by this act : Provided, That the boards of trustees 
of such schools are hereby authorized and empowered to 
charge such fees for extension work provided for under 
section 5 of chapter 128 of the Laws of 1917 as the boards 
of trustees of the several normal schools shall by joint 
action determine; all fees collected to be paid into a re- 
volving fund of the school collecting the same, and to be 
held by the trustees of such school and used and expended 
by such trustees in carrying on the extension work of 
such school, and to be accounted for in accordance with 
existing laws. All students shall be required to furnish 
satisfactory evidence of good moral character, and any 
student may be suspended or expelled from any state 
normal school contemplated by this act who is found to 



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be immoral, or who has refused to comply with its rules 
and regulations for its government. 

Passed the Senate March 1, 1921. 

Passed the House March 8, 1921. 

Approved by the Governor March 19, 1921. 



CHAPTEE 139. 

[S. B. 160.] 



Ax Act relating to a system of student fees in the University of Wash- 
ington and providing for the collection and disposal of the same, 
and amending sections 1, 2, 3 and 4, and repealing section 5 of 
chapter 63 of the Laws of 1919. 

Be it enacted hy the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Sectioit 1. That section 1 of chapter 63 of the Laws 
of 1919 be amended to read as follows : 

Section 1. The University of Washington shall 
charge to and collect from each of the students regis- 
tering therein the following fees: (a) A general tui- 
tion fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per quarter from each 
person domiciled in this state or the territory of Alaska 
for the period of one year prior to registration, and fifty 
dollars ($50.00) each per quarter from all others, (b) 
Special tuition fees to include fees for summer session, 
short courses, marine station work, correspondence or 
extension courses, individual instruction fees, and such 
other special tuition fees as may be established by the 
board of regents of the university from time to tipie. 
(c) A library fee of ten dollars ($10.00) per quarter for 
law, for each student registered in law, for the law 
library, (d) Student deposit, disciplinary, laboratory, 
library, gymnasium, hospital or health fees, and such 
other fees as may be established by the board of regents 
from time to time, the fees mentioned in this subdivision 
to be deposited or paid by each student required to do- 



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posit or pay same under rules to be prescribed by said 
board. 

Sec. 2. That section 2 of chapter 63 of the Laws of 
1919 be amended to read as follows : 

Section 2. All general tuition fees mentioned in sub- 
division (a) of section 1 of this act shall, within thirty- 
five days (35) days from the date of collection thereof, 
be paid into the state treasury and by the state treasurer 
shall be credited as follows: Ten dollars ($10.00) from 
each student to the ^* University of Washington Build- 
ing Fund'' and the balance to the ^^ University of Wash- 
ington Fund''. The sum so credited to the ** University 
of Washington Building Fund ' ' shall be used exclusively 
for the purpose of erecting, altering, maintaining, equip- 
ping or furnishing buildings constructed under the act 
of March 15th, 1915, being chapter 66 of the Laws of 
1915 and the acts amendatory thereto. 

Sec. 3. That section 3 of chapter 63 of the Laws of 
1919 be amended to read as follows : 

Section 3. Said fees mentioned in subdivisions (b), 
(c) and (d) of section 1 of this act shall be held by the 
said board of regents as a revolving fund and expended 
for the purposes for which collected, and be accounted 
for in accordance with the existing law. 

Sec. 4. That section 4 of chapter 63 of the Laws of 
1919 be amended to read as follows : 

Section 4. The fees mentioned in subdivision (a) of 
section 1 of this act are not returnable except in case of 
sickness or causes entirely beyond the control of the 
student. No portion of the returnable fees shall be re- 
turned for voluntary or enforced withdrawal after thirty 
(30) days from the date of registration of the student. 
Students withdrawing under discipline forfeit all rights 
to the return of any portion of the fee. In no case shall 
more than one-half of the fees be refunded. 



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Sec. 5. The board of regents may exempt the fol- 
lowing classes of persons from the payment of the fees 
mentioned in subdivisions (a) and (b) of section 1 of this 
act except for the individual instruction fees mentioned in 
said subdivision (b) : (1) All honorably discharged ser- 
vice men or women who served in the military or naval 
service of the United States during the late World War ; 
and all honorably discharged service men who served in 
the military or naval services of any of the governments 
associated with the United States during the said war, 
provided they were citizens of the United States at the 
time of their enlistment and who are again citizens at 
the time of their registration in the university. If any 
such service men have not been domiciled in this state for 
one year prior to registration said board may exempt 
them up to one-half of the fee payable by other non-domi- 
ciled students. (2) Members of the staff of the Univer- 
sity of Washington. (3) Teachers in the public schools 
of the state who supervise the cadet teachers from the 
University of Washington. 

Sec. 6. In case of deserving students domiciled in 
this state or the territory of Alaska who, after a quarter 
in residence have shown a marked capacity for the work 
done by them in school, the board of regents may, in 
lieu of collecting the fees provided for in subdivision (a) 
of section 1 of this act, extend credit to said students in 
the amount of said fees, taking therefor the promissory 
note of the student, with interest at the rate of four per 
cent per annum. 

Sec. 7. Section 5 of chapter 63 of the Laws of 1919 
is hereby repealed. 

Passed the Senate February 28, 1921. 

Passed the House March 8, 1921. 

Approved by the Governor March 19, 1921. 



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CHAPTER 142. 

[H. B. 309.] 

An Act relating to the state institutions of higher education, making 
provisions for the annual levy of a tax to produce revenue there- 
for and amending section 5049-4 of Remington & Ballinger's An- 
notated Codes and Statutes of Washington. 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Section 1. The state board of equalization shall, be- 
ginning the fiscal year, 1921, and annually thereafter, at 
the time of levying taxes for state purposes, levy upon all 
property subject to taxation, a tax of one and ten one 
hundredths of one mill (1.10) for the state university 
fund; sixty-seven one hundredths of one mill (.67) for 
the state college fund ; twenty one hundredths of one mill 
(.20) for the Bellingham normal school fund; fifteen and 
nine-tenths hundredths of one mill (.159) for the Cheney 
normal school fund; and twelve one hundredths of one 
mill (.12) for the Ellensburg normal school fund. 

It shall be the duty of the joint board of higher curric- 
ula in the report to be made next preceding the convening 
of the legislature in 1925 to recommend any changes in 
levy herein provided for which the said board may deem 
necessary or proper, and to give their specific grounds 
and reasons therefor, for the purpose of having the levy 
herein provided for readjusted by the legislature of 1925. 

Passed the House March 2, 1921. 
Passed the Senate March 8, 1921. 
Approved by the Governor March 21, 1921. 



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CHAPTER 147. 

[H. B. 199.] 

An Act relating to school district bonds, and amending sections 5110 
and 5116 Pierce's Code. 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Section 1. That section 5110 of Pierce's Code (Laws 
1919, Chapter 9 [90] ) be amended to read as follows : 

Section 5110. The board of directors of any school 
district provided for in this act, or hereafter created in 
this state may borrow money and issue negotiable coupon 
bonds therefor to any amount not to exceed five (5) per 
cent of the taxable property in such district, as shown 
by the last assessment roll for county and state pur- 
poses previous to the incurring of such indebtedness; 
except that in incorporated cities the assessment shall be 
taken from the last assessment for city purposes, for the 
purpose of funding outstanding indebtedness, or bonds 
heretofore issued, or issued under the provisions of this 
act, or for the purchase of a school house site or sites 
for t)uildings or playgrounds authorized by law, erect- 
ing one or more school houses, an administration build- 
ing and all other buildings authorized by law and pro- 
viding the same with all necessary furniture, apparatus 
or equipment, or for any or all of these purposes, when 
authorized by vote of the district so to do, as provided in 
the next section : Provided, That the bonds so issued shall 
bear a rate of interest not to exceed six (6) per cent 
per annum, interest payable annually or semi-annually, 
payable and redeemable at such time as may be desig- 
nated in the bonds. All school district bonds shall be 
payable within a period of not to exceed twenty-three 
years from date, except when issued by districts of the 
first class for the purpose of acquiring buildings or play- 
ground sites, or for erecting buildings of a permanent 
character, in which case they shall be made payable in 



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semi-annual or annual installments, beginning the third 
year over any period not exceeding forty years from date : 
And provided further, That from and after July 1, 1919, 
all bonds issued by any school district shall be issued in 
serial form. 

Sec. 2. That section 5116 of Pierce's Code (Laws 
1911, p. 390 [391] ) be amended to read as follows : 

Section 5116. The county commissioners must ascer- 
tain and levy annually, in addition to the school district 
tax, the tax necessary to pay the interest upon such bonds 
as it becomes due, and at the expiration of one-half of 
the time for which said bonds are to run, and annually 
thereafter, until full payment of said bonds is made, 
they shall levy, in addition to the tax required to pay 
the interest such amount for sinking fund to meet the pay- 
ments of said bonds at maturity, to be determined by 
dividing the amount of bonds outstanding by the re- 
maining number of years to run, and the fund arising 
from such levy shall be kept as the bond redemption fund 
of said district, and each of said tax levies shall be a lien 
upon the property of said district, and must be collected 
in the same manner as the taxes for other school' pur- 
poses: Provided, That the county treasurer, when auth- 
orized to do so by the board of directors of any school 
district, may invest any accumulated or other sinking 
fund of said district in general bonds or warrants of the 
State of Washington, or of any school district, city or 
county therein, if the maturity of the bonds precedes the 
maturity of the bonds for which said sinking fund is being 
accumulated, and all profits accruing from such invest- 
ment and the fund so invested shall revert to the sinking 
or other fund of said district, and the county treasurer 
shall be custodian of all bonds or warrants purchased 
by and with the said sinking fund, until the same are re- 
deemed: And provided further, That the county treas- 
urer, when authorized to do so bv the board of directors 



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of any school district, may purchase and redeem any of 
the outstanding bonds of said district, paying for said 
bonds out of the accumulated sinking fund of the district ; 
all revenues provided for in this section shall constitute 
a separate fund, to be known as the bond redemption 
fund. 

Passed the House March 3, 1921. 

Passed the Senate March 8, 1921. 

Approved by the Governor March 21, 1921. 



CHAPTER 163. 

[S. B. 159.] 



An Act regulating the requirements for admission to the University 

of Washington. 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Section 1. The University of "Washington shall 
begin its courses of study in liberal arts and science at 
the point where the same are completed in the public 
high schools of the state, as far as practicable. No student 
shall be admitted to the University of Washington who 
shall have less than graduation from a four year accre- 
dited high school except persons twenty-one years of 
age or over, and students registering in extension work, 
short courses and in the summer sessions. No student 
shall be admitted except upon examination satisfactory 
to the university or upon certificates from those public 
high schools and other educational institutions whoso 
courses of study meet the approval of the said university. 

Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith 
are hereby repealed. 

Passed the Senate February 28, 1921. 

Passed the House March 8, 1921. 

Approved by the Governor March 21, 1921. 



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CHAPTER 164. 

[S. B. 225.] 

An Act relating to the State College of Washington and providing for 
the collection and disposition of tuition fees. 

Be it enacted hy the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Section 1. The board of regents of the state college 
of Washington shall charge to and collect from each of 
the students registering at said institution who have not 
resided in this state or Territory of Alaska one year prior 
to date of registration a tuition fee of seventy-five dol- 
lars ($75.00) per semester. All other students except 
those in summer schools, short courses, correspondence 
or extension courses, shall be charged a tuition fee of 
not less than ten dollars ($10.00) per semester. 

Sec. 2. The tuition fees collected under section 1 
of this act shall be deposited with the state treasurer in 
the state college current fund, and expended by the board 
of regents for either buildings or equipment or operation 
or maintenance as may be deemed most advisable for 
the best interests of the institution. Expenditures so 
made shall be accounted for in accordance with the exist- 
ing law. 

Sec. 3. Tuition fees collected under this act are not 
returnable unless in case of sickness or other causes be- 
yond the control of the student. In no case shall more 
than one-half (%) of the tuition be refunded. Students 
withdrawing under discipline forfeit all rights to the re- 
turn of any portion of the fees. No portion of the tuition 
shall be refunded after thirty (30) days from date of 
registration of the student. 

Sec. 4. The board of regents may exempt the fol- 
lowing classes of persons from the payment of tuition: 
(1) All honorably discharged service men who served in 
the military or naval service of the United States during 



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the late world war ; and all honorably discharged service 
men in the military or naval services of any of the gov- 
ernments associated with the United States during said 
war, provided they were citizens of the United States at 
the time of their enlistment and who are again citizens 
at the time of their registration at the state college. If 
any of such service men have not resided in this state 
for one (1) year prior to registration said board may 
exempt them up to one-half (%) of the tuition payable 
by other non-resident students ; (2) members of the staff 
of the state college of Washington; (3) In case of de- 
serving students of this state and Alaska who, after a 
quarter in residence have shown a marked capacity for 
the work done by them in school, the board of regents, 
may, in lieu of collecting the fees provided for in section 
1 of this act, extend credit to said students in the amount 
of said fees, taking therefor the promissory note of the 
students with interest at the rate of four per cent per 
annum. 

Passed the Senate March 3, 1921. 

Passed the House March 8, 1921. 

Approved by the Governor March 21, 1921. 



CHAPTER 170. 

[S. B. 139.] 



An Act fixing the time for holding city, port district and school dis- 
trict elections in certain cases, providing for the appointment of 
election officers and prescribing their duties, and fixing the time 
of the commencement of terms of municipal and district officers. 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 
Section^ 1. All city, school district and port district 
elections, other than in class A and first class counties, 
whether general or special, and whether for the election 
of officers, or for the submission to the voters of such 



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city, port district or school district, of any question for 
their adoption and approval or rejection, in any port 
district, containing a school district of the first class, 
shall be held on the first Saturday in December in the 
year in which they may be called : Provided, That this 
section shall not be construed as fixing the time for hold- 
ing the elections for the recall of any city or district 
officers or primary election or special bond election. 

Sec. 2. The term of every city, port district and 
school district officer elected under the provisions of this 
act shall begin on the first Monday in January following 
his election : Provided, however, That any person elected 
to office at the first election held under this act shall not 
take office until the expiration of the term of office of his 
predecessor: And provided further, That any person 
whose term of office shall expire prior to the holding of 
the first election under this act shall continue to hold 
office until his successor is elected and qualified. 

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the chairman of the 
board of county commissioners, the county auditor and 
the prosecuting attorney in all city, town and district 
elections held under the provisions of this act to pro- 
vide places for holding elections, to appoint the elec- 
tion officers, to provide for their compensation, to pro- 
vide ballot boxes, ballot or voting machines, poll books 
and tally sheets, and deliver them to the election officers 
at the polling places, to publish and post notices of calling 
such elections in the manner provided by law, and to 
apportion to each city, town or district its share of the 
expense of such election. 

Sec. 4. The election officers hereinabove provided 
for shall conduct such election and shall receive and de- 
posit the ballots cast thereat in the proper and respective 
ballot boxes and shall count said ballots and make return 
thereof to the proper officers of the respective cities, port 
districts and school districts in the manner provided by 



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law : Provided, however, That there shall be but one set 
of election oJBficers in each precinct. 

Sec. 5. At every election held under the provisions 
of this act, the polls shall be kept open from eight o 'clock 
a. m. to eight o 'clock p. m., and all qualified electors who 
shall be inside the polling place at eight o'clock p. ni. 
shall be allowed to cast their ballots at such election. 

Passed the Senate March 5, 1921. 

Passed the House March 9, 1921. 

Approved by the Governor March 21, 1921. 



CHAPTER 175. 

[S. S. B. 180.] 



An Act relating to education and to the public schools; prescribing 
and limiting the powers of directors and officers of school districts 
in matters of health and sanitation, and amending section 4509 
of Remington & Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of 
Washington. 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Section 1. That section 4509 of Eem. & Bal. Code 
be amended to read as follows : 

Section 4509. Every board of directors of a school 
district of the first class shall, in addition to the general 
powers enumerated in chapter XVII. (XV.) of this title, 
have the power : 

First. To employ for a term of not exceeding three 
years a city superintendent of schools of the district, and 
for cause to dismiss him ; and to fix his duties and com- 
pensation. 

Second. To prescribe a course of study and a pro- 
gram of exercises, which shall not be inconsistent with 
the course of study prepared by the state board of educa- 
tion for the use of the common schools of this state. 



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Third. To make necessary by-laws for more effec- 
tively carrying out the provisions of this act, and for 
facilitating the work of the board, as required by law. 

Fourth. To adopt and enforce such rules and regula- 
tions as may be deemed essential to the well being of the 
schools, and to establish and maintain such grades and 
departments, including night, high, kindergarten, manual 
training and industrial schools, and schools and depart- 
ments for the education and training of any class or 
classes of defective youth, as shall, in the judgment of 
the board, best promote the interests of education in that 
district. 

Fifth. To employ and, for cause, to dismiss teachers 
and janitors; to determine the length over and above 
eight (8) months that school shall be maintained: Pro- 
vided, That for purposes of apportionment no district 
shall be credited with more than one hundred and eighty- 
three days' attendance in any school year; to fix the 
time for annual opening of schools and for the daily dis- 
missal of primary pupils before the regular time for 
closing schools. 

Sixth. To employ a business manager, attorneys, an 
architect, inspectors of construction, superintendents of 
buildings and janitors, and a superintendent of supplies 
and other employees, and to prescribe their duties and 
fix their compensation. 

Seventh. To employ, and, for cause, dismiss one or 
more assistant city superintendents and to define their 
duties and fix their compensation. 

Eighth. To employ, and, for cause, dismiss super- 
visors of instruction, and to define their duties and fix 
their compensation. 

Ninth. To maintain a shop and repair department, 
and to employ a foreman and the necessary help for the 
maintenance and conduct thereof. 

Tenth. To provide free text-books and supplies for 
all children attending school, when so ordered by a vote 



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of the electors ; or, if free text-books are not voted by the 
electors, to provide books for children of indigent par- 
ents, on the written statement of the city superintendent 
that the parents of such children are not able to purchase 
them. 

Eleventh. To require of the officers or employees of 
the district to give a bond for the faithful discharge of 
their duties in such penal sum as may be fixed by the 
board with good and sufficient surety, and to cause the 
premium for all bonds required of all such officers or em- 
ployees to be paid by the district. 

Twelfth. To prohibit all secret fraternities and soro- 
rities among the students in any of the schools of the said 
districts. 

Thirteenth. To appoint a practicing physician, resi- 
dent of the school district, who shall be known as the 
school district medical inspector, and whose duty it shall 
be to decide for the board of directors all questions oP 
sanitation and health affecting the safety and welfare of 
the public schools of the district ; he or authorized depu- 
ties shall make inspections of each school in the district 
and report the condition of the same to the board of edu- 
cation and board of health: Provided, however, That a 
parent or guardian having control or charge of any child 
enrolled in any public school in districts of the first class 
of the state may file annually with the principal of the 
school in which he is enrolled, a statement in writing, 
signed by such parent or guardian, stating that he will 
not consent to the physical examination of his child, and 
thereupon such child shall be exempt from any physical 
examination: Provided, further. That whenever such 
practicing physician or graduate nurse shall in good faith 
have reason to believe that such child is suffering from 
a contagious or infectious disease, such child may be ex- 
amined for such contagious or infectious disease and if 
found so infected shall be sent home and such parent or 
guardian shall be notified of the reason therefor, and 



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then such child shall not be permitted to return to school 
until the school authorities are satisfied that such child 
is not suffering from such contagious or infectious dis- 
ease: And provided further, That no child shall be re- 
quired to submit to vaccination without the written con- 
sent of his parent or guardian: And provided further, 
That no form of vaccination, inoculation or other medica- 
tion shall hereafter be made a condition precedent in this 
state for admission to or attendance in any public school 
maintained by a district of the first class or for the em- 
ployment of any person as teacher in any such school or 
in any other capacity in connection therewith : Provided 
further, That no provision of thi« act shall be construed 
as preventing the quarantining or exclusion of persons 
suspected of having, or who have been exposed, to con- 
tagious diseases. 

Passed the Senate March 1, 1921. 

Passed the House March 8, 1921. 

Approved by the Governor March 21, 1921 

Note. — A referendum petition has been filed against the following 
portions of chapter 175: 

Provided, however, That a parent or guardian having control or 
charge of any child enrolled in any public school in districts of the 
first class of the state may file annually with the principal of the school 
in which he is enrolled, a statement in writing, signed by such parent 
or guardian, stating that he will not consent to the physical examin- 
ation of his child, and thereupon such child shall be exempt from any 
physical examination: Provided, further. That whenever such practic- 
ing physician or graduate nurse shall in good faith have reason to be- 
lieve that such child is suffering from a contagious or infectious dis- 
ease, such child may be examined for such contagious or infectious dis- 
ease and if found so infected shall be sent home and such parent or 
guardian shall be notified of the reason therefor, and then such child 
shall not be permitted to return to school until the school authorities 
are satisfied that such child is not suffering from such contagious or 
infectious disease, and: Provided further, That no child shall be re- 
quired to submit to vaccination without the written consent of his 
parent or guardian, and: Provided further, That no form of vaccina- 
tion, innoculation or other medication shall hereafter be made a condi- 
tion precedent in this state for admission to or attendance in any pub- 
lic school maintained by a district of the first class or for the employ- 



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ment of any person as teacher in any such school or in any other capac- 
ity in connection therewith: Provided further, That no provision of 
this act shall be construed as preventing the quarantining or exclusion 
of persons suspected of having, or who have been exposed to conta- 
gious diseases. 



CHAPTER 190. 

[S. B. 26.] 



Ax Act relating to health, welfare and care of children in attendance 
at any public school in any city of the first class. 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of 
Washington: 

Section 1. The board of directors of any public 
school in any city of the first class may cause to be fur- 
nished free of charge, in a suitable individual sterilized 
receptacle on each and every school day to each child in 
attendance under the age of fourteen years desiring the 
same, not less than one-half pint of pure whole milk dur- 
ing the lunch hour at the noon intermission. The cost of 
supplying such milk shall be paid for and in the same 
manner and out of the same fund as the other items of 
expense incurred in the conduct and operation of said 
school. 

Passed the Senate February 2, 1921. 

Passed the House March 8, 1921. 

Permitted to become a law without the signature of the Governor. 
J. Grant Hinkle, Secretary of State. 



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